Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1999-Present

The American Antiquarian Society has been awarding visiting research fellowships since 1972-73. These stipend-bearing awards have enabled a diverse group of researchers to spend anywhere from one month to a full year in residence at the Society.

(Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900

Granville

Ganter

2001-02

St. John's

Assistant Professor

Peterson

Pregant Words: The Matrix of Public Speech in the Northeast, 1840-1860

Jared

Gardner

2000-1

Ohio State University

assistant professor

ASECS

The Literary Museum: Periodicals and the Unsettling of American Literature

Matthew

Garrett

2011-12

Wesleyan University

assistant professor

NEMLA

Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic

J.

Garrison

2014-15

University of Delaware

Professor in the Winterthur Program in american Material Culture

Last

Freight and the Commercial Landscapes of the Atlantic World, 1650-1860

Ellen

Garvey

2008-9

New Jersey City University

associate professor

Peterson

"Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture."

Erika

Gasser

2003-4

University of Michigan

PhD candidate

Peterson

The Afflicted Grew Presently Well: Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England, 1600-1700

Amina

Gautier

2013

Chicago, IL

fiction writer

Hearst

research for historical novel titled "Band of Gideon" about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island

David

Gellman

2004-5

DePauw University

assistant professor

Peterson

"Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom"

Angela

George

2007-8

University of Maryland

PhD candidate

Last

"The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893"

Sarah

Gerk

2013-14

Oberlin College

visiting teacher

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music

Todd

Gernes

1990-91

Brown University

PhD, candidate

Hiatt

Schoolgirls: Young Women's Literary Culture, Political Expression, and the Aesthetics of Affiliation in Nineteenth-Century America

Claire

Gherini

2011-12

Johns Hopkins University

PhD candidate

Peterson

'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800

Alan

Gibson

1989-90

University of Notre Dame

PhD candidate

Hiatt

The Development of the Concept of Public Opinion in the American Enlightenment, 1760-1800

Ellen

Gilbert

2003-4

Rutgers University

independent scholar

Peterson

St. Wulstan Society Papers

Richard

Gildrie

1983-84

Austin Peay State

professor

Peterson

New England Clerics and Popular Civility, 1679-1740

Sarah

Gillespie

2006-7

City University of New York

PhD candidate

Drawn to Art

'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850

Brendan

Gillis

2016-17

Miami University of Ohio

visiting assistant professor

Hench

Conduits of Justice: Magistrates and the British Imperial State, 1732-1834

William

Gilmore-Lehne

1983-84

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

associate professor

RA

Reading and the Circulation of Print in Rural New England, 1787-1839

William

Gilmore-Lehne

1990-91

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

associate professor

AAS-NEH

The State of Knowledge on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution

William

Gilmore-Lehne

1998-99

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

associate professor

RA

A Republic of Knowledge: Communications and the Rise of an Age of Reading in America, 1639-1861

W. Clark

Gilpin

1982-83

Phillips Theological Seminary

associate professor

Haven

Eighteenth-Century Protestant Concepts of the Church

Lesley

Ginsberg

1997-98

Stanford University

recent PhD

AAS-NEH

The Romance of Dependency: Childhood and the Ideology of Love in American Literature, 1825-1870

Elaine

Ginsberg

1976-77

West Virginia University

associate professor

Daniels

Nineteenth-Century Novels of Female Adolescence

Lisa

Gitelman

2007-8

Catholic University

associate professor

Last

"Early Photographs of Words Backwards"

Lisa

Gladman

2007-08

Catholic

Associate Professor

Last

Early Photographs of Words Backwards

Jacqueline

Goldsby

2000-1

Cornell University

assistant professor

Peterson

A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life

Aston

Gonzalez

2011-12

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PhD candidate

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity

Glenda

Goodman

2010-11

Harvard University

PhD candidate

Peterson

Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids

Adam

Gordon

2011-12

UCLA

Ph.D. in English

Hench

Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America

Philip

Gould

1999-00

Brown University

assistant professor

NEMLA

A Barbaric Trade': Commerce, Antislavery, and Cultures of Manners in Anglo-America, 1770-1830

Sarah

Gould

2008-9

University of Michigan

PhD candidate

Last

"Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games."

Harvey

Graff

1988-89

University of Texas, San Antonio

professor

AAS-NEH

Conflicting Paths: The Transformations of Growing Up, 1750-20

Susan

Graham

2005-6

University of Minnesota

PhD. Candidate

Peterson

Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship

Maryemma

Graham

1990-91

Northeastern University

associate professor

NEMLA

Afro-American Authorship, 1746-06

Brett

Grainger

2012-13

Harvard University

PhD candidate

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870

Katherine

Grant

1994-95

Yale University

PhD candidate

Peterson

The Lyceum Movement in America, 1826-1890

Christopher

Grasso

1999-00

College of William and Mary

associate professor

Peterson

Skepticism and American Faith: The Early Nineteenth Century

Myron

Gray

2012-13

University of Pennsylvania

PhD candidate

Peterson

French Music in Federal Philadelphia

James

Green

1986-87

Library Company of Philadelphia

associate librarian

Boni

The Book Distribution Network of Mathew Carey, 1785-1820

James

Green

1989-90

Library Company of Philadelphia

associate librarian

Botein

The Transformation of the American Book Trade, 1785-1825

Harvey

Green

1997-98

Northeastern University

professor

Peterson

Myth and History in American Literary and Material Culture, 1850-10

Bruce

Greenfield

1989-90

Dalhousie University

assistant professor

NEMLA

Plotting the Mississippi: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Discovery Rhetoric

Jennifer Ann

Greenhill

2005-6

Yale University

PhD. Candidate

AHPCS

The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906

Jennifer

Greenhill

1989-90

Yale University

PhD candidate

AHPCS

The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-06